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Hi everyone!
I am teaching a co-op class for the first time in 2 weeks. It is a one time class for 45 minutes. I will be teaching the K-2 group. I wanted to read "Stopping By Woods on Snowy Evening" to them and I have a new picture book that I will use to help them visualize the poem since they are so little. I thought it would be so cute to have a pre-done little watercolor picture of fir trees or something on paper. (courtesy of my artistic watercolor savvy sons.  ) Then, I would have them glue a little horse on the paper, maybe with little bells on him for the (give his harness bells a shake) part. Then, they could cut out snowflakes, and for some reason, I thought of a little cut out window as you sometimes see used with phonics games. The ones that have the bookmark sized piece of paper moving up and down so that some of the letters show up in the box and you can make new words. KWIM? Anyway, they could pull up the little card and read the poem. Wouldn't it be cool if there was glitter in there too that looked like snow??? (It might have to be encased in plastic to make this work.)
Then, I had thought about reading "The Firefly" (A little light is going by. Is going up to see the sky. A little light with wings. I never would have thought of it, to see a little bug all lit and made to go on wings..."
I also thought about reading them "The Tygre" (Tiger, Tiger burning bright.."
Then, I had thought about helping them memorize something easy BY Robert Louis Stevenson. Perhaps "Rain" (The rain is raining all around. It falls on field and tree. It rains on the umbrellas here and on the ships at sea.) Or something equally easy.
So, I have poems to read. I have a plan to help them possibly LEARN a poem using the method I learned from using Laura Berquist's MODG curriculum when the boys were young. (Sort of working through the poem line by line and repeating it...)
Anyway, I would LOVE to do some sort of hands on craft for them to take home. I am NOT crafty. I have all sorts of neat ideas, but they can't make it down my arm and out into the "real world" So frustrating!!! I had thought about making a little picture with a pop-up tiger. Black background, with sort of a cut-out orange top that would pop up and look like a tiger. (And, of course he would have some sort of wild tiger eyes!) Then, I wanted a little cut out window that they could see the verses through and as they moved a paper up, the verses would move down line-by-line so that they could read it. Too complicated for this age group, right?? Then, I thought of maybe some sort of little firefly craft???
So, my CRY to you all is to help me think of a craft that children K-2 could do to help them appreciate a poem and have something that they could use to remember the poem or hang on the wall of their room. (I am paying for this too, so I have to consider cost a bit. )
Perhaps a craft isn't necc. at all and I could do a rhyming game where we try to learn to rhyme, although all poems don't rhyme, but it might be fun???
Or, should I just stick to nursery rhymes. Anyone into poetry AND the crafty sort?? I figured SOMEONE must have done SOMETHING creative with poetry SOMETIME before.  Any ideas??? I just wanted to make it memorable and special since there are so few who really like/understand poetry and I just think it is so fun! The class is in two weeks, so I feel a little under the gun although I have been stressing about it for 6 months now!  Can you TELL I have been thinking about this for 6 months?? These craft ideas are crazy, aren't they??? No one has really told me what I have to do etc. so the field is WIDE open for any suggestions, which seems to be what is making it difficult for me. Perhaps there is a poem for this age group I have missed that is sort of standard for appreciation that would be chock full of inspiration etc.
Maybe some one can give me some perspective.
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I think I may have found a cute age appropriate craft last night in my search. Using "The Firefly" poem I will have them make a cute, glow in the dark firefly to take home. I had thought of a baby-food jar snow-globe for "Stopping by Woods on Snowy Evening" but wondered where to find little trees and a person etc. hehe So much fun to think of all this whacky stuff, but maybe these new ideas will work.
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We've had fun at home by drawing pictures to go with some Robert Louis STevenson poems such as the Swing or the Cow.
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Kim,
the snow globe idea is good...I've done stickers on the outside of a babyfood jar before, and the snow inside...still gets the same effect without worrying about things getting wet or upside down or whatever inside the jar. Horses and pine tree stickers should be easy to come by...and I've used glitter in the water for snow in the past.
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Great idea about stickers on the OUTSIDE of the jar, Lori. I didn't even think of that! I got a few cute horses to put inside with silicone caulk. THe kind you use around tubs....) I hope that will hold them down. I got some sort of neat glitter and then I guess you put a drop or two of mineral oil in the water to help with the falling effect.
I also found at a cute little foam pack craft to make my firefly out of at Michael's. It is really a butterfly or dragonfly, but I am going to clip the tail off of the dragonfly and put a popscicle stick on the end that they will paint with glow in the dark paint. So, WHEW!, all that is figured out. Now, I just have to print out a few "mini" books for them with the poems in them! I hope they will enjoy it.
Thanks for your replies!
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